Who in their right mind would send 360 tons of cash into a war zone? Bush did

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http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/06/sitroom.01.html

<snip>REP. HENRY WAXMAN (D), CALIFORNIA: Who in their right mind would send 360 tons of cash into a war zone? But that's exactly what our government did.

KOPPEL: Chairman Henry Waxman said, during Paul Bremer's 13 months in charge, as these photographs released by the committee show, the U.S. Federal Reserve had flown in planeloads of cash, totalling nearly $12 billion, money Waxman accused Bremer and his colleagues of then handing over to Iraqi ministries, without proper oversight.

WAXMAN: To go -- to pay off corrupt officials, or, worst of all, did some of this money get in the hands of the insurgents and those who are fighting us today in Iraq?

KOPPEL: Bremer responded, his mandate in post-Saddam Iraq made oversight next to impossible, and said most of the money went to, among other things, paying civil service salaries and pensions.

[Karenina]

1. That's because it isn't REALLY worth

the paper it's printed on. It's all a grand illusion.

[ljm2002]

2. Bremer tried to stress...

...that it wasn't really our money, it was money that belonged to Iraqis. So therefore it didn't matter that it was basically cast to the four winds.

Yeah, makes sense to me.

:wtf: